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MENDES DE VASCONCELOS, Luís. Arte militar dividida em tres partes. A primeira ensina a peleijar em campanha aberta, a segunda nos alojamentos, & aterceira nas fortificaçoes. Com tres discursos antes da arte ...
Alenquer, Vicente Alvarez, 1612. Small folio (20 x 27.5 cm). With 13 letterpress folding plates, woodcut initials and diagrams in the text. Later stamped cream morocco by Antonio Possas of Porto (with his ticket). [4], 263, [5] ll. Full description

[MENORCA]. La ilustre junta provincial de sanidad de la isla de Menorca.
[Menorca], 15 March 1861. Folio (42.5 x 30.5 cm). Broadside with a wood-engraved border, the wood-engraved royal coat of arms of Spain at the head and a woodcut map of Mahon in the centre of the certificate. With on the verso three manuscript statements (in French, English and Portuguese), signed and stamped. Full description

MENOU, Jacques-François ("Abdallah") de Boussay de. Copie de lordre du général en chef ... 5 Fructidor an 8 [= 23 August 1800] [and six more to] 16 Brumaire an 9 [= 7 November 1800].
Cairo, Imprimerie Nationale, [23 August - 7 November 1800]. Folio (22 x 31.5 cm). 8 sets of regulations issued in 10 weeks, printed in French and Arabic in two parallel columns, each set with 2 to 24 pages. Each with a drop title with a woodcut vignette (either of 2 different blocks) representing the French Republic personified as Marianne with the motto "Liberté Egalité". [24]; [16]; [2]; [3], [1 blank]; [4]; [10]; [6]; [2] pp. Full description

MENOU, Jacques-François ("Abdallah") de Boussay de. Proclamation aux habitans de lEgypte.
Cairo, Imprimerie Nationale, 6 brumaire an 9 [28 October 1800 CE]. Folio (141 x 42.5 cm). Five small oblong sheets, printed in French and Arabic in parallel columns, pasted together one above the other to form a single long broadside. Full description

MENOU, Jacques-François de Boussay de. Ordre du jour, du 29 nivôse an 9 [19 janvier 1801].
Cairo, Imprimerie nationale, [19 January 1801 CE =] 29 nivôse an IX. Small folio (21.5 x 31 cm). Printed in French and Arabic in two columns. 2 pp. Full description

MERIAN, Matthäus. Theatrum Europaeum. Beschreibung aller Geschichten so sich 1617[-1718] zugetragen haben.
Frankfurt am Main, Daniel Fievet, Johann Görlin et al., ca. 1633-1738. 21 vols. Folio (ca. 22 × 33.5 cm). With 19 (of 20) engraved title-pages, 1 engraved title vignette, 1 armorial plate, 646 (of 686) engraved views, plans, and maps, many folding or double-page-sized, 690 (of 692) engravings in the text (mostly portraits on interleaves), and several folding tables. Early 18th century full leather bindings with gold-tooled spines (titles and crown crest) and blind-tooled frame on the boards; slightly differing from vol. 16 onwards with gilt supralibros "Academ. Marburg.". Full description

MERIAN, Matthäus. Topographia Helvetiae Rhaetiae et Valesiae. Das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätte und Plätz, in der hochlöblichen Eydgnoßschafft, Grawbündten, Walliß, und etlicher zugewanten Orten.
[Frankfurt am Main], Matthäus Merian, 1642. Folio. With richly engraved title-page, 74 (of 76) engraved maps, plans and views on 54 (of 56) plates normally included the 1642 first edition (nearly all double-page) plus 1 large folding plate from the 1653 Anhang, and 67 additional engravings from the 17th and 18th century, including at least 16 by or after Merian. Altogether there are 3 general maps (1 of Germany and surroundings and 2 of Switzerland), 4 detail maps, and numerous city plans and views. Lacking the bird's eye view of Herisau and the second of two views of Neuchâtel. Tanned sheepskin (ca. 1700?), gold-tooled spine. 72, [8] pp. plus engraved plates. Full description

MESA, Sebastian de. Jornada de Africa por el Rey Don Sebastian y union del reyno de Portugal a la corona de Castilla.
Barcelona, Pedro Lacavalleria, 1630. 4to. Each page framed with thin printed rules. Contemporary gold-tooled leather (blackened and flaking), each board with the helmed and mantled arms of the Mazarin family in the centre. [2], 169, [1] ll. Full description

METEREN, Emanuel van. Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis Belgii sub quatuor Burgundis & totidem Austriacis principibus coniunctionem & gubernationem breviter. Turbas autem, bella et mutationes tempore regis Philippi, Carli V. Caesaris filii, ad annum usque 1598. plenius complectens, conscripta.
[Cologne, A. Mylius, 1598]. Folio. With letterpress title-page in engraved border with scenes of trade and war (Verduyn, pl. XIV), additional engraved medallion portrait of the author mounted on blank back of title-page, by Hendrik Hondius the Elder, double-page engraved map of the Netherlands, by Frans Hogenberg and 22 engraved portraits on 19 plates. Contemporary vellum. [8], "623" [= 643], [1] pp. Full description

MEXIA, Pedro. Coloquios o dialogos compuestos por el magnifico cavallero Pero Mexia, vezino de Sevilla, en los quales se disputan y tratan varias y diversas cosas de mucha erudicion y doctrina. Al illustrissimo senor don Perasan de Ribera Marques de Tarisa &c.
Antwerp, widow of Martinus Nutius, 1561. Small agenda 12mo (14 x 6.5 cm). With Nutius's woodcut device on the title-page. 17th-century(?) blind-tooled overlapping vellum, each board with the coat of arms of the Landgrave of Hesse, gilt edges. 165, [3 blank] ll. Full description